What is Yucca Mountain?
If built, the proposed facility at Yucca Mountain will become the final disposal site for all of the spent nuclear fuel and high-level nuclear waste produced in the U.S. Currently, spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste is stored above ground at more than seventy locations in two-thirds of the states, including commercial nuclear power plants and 5 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) facilities. If built, the proposed facility at Yucca Mountain will become the final disposal site for all of the spent nuclear fuel and high-level nuclear waste produced in the U.S. The proposed facility is a geologic repository, meaning that it will store packaged waste deep below the Earth’s surface in an underground tunnel.
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- If Yucca Mountain, Nevada is approved as the permanent federal repository for high level nuclear waste and spent fuel, will the Skull Valley temporary storage site be needed?
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